The Real Oliver Twist

Author : John Waller
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1840464704
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Oliver Twist written by John Waller and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens' most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boy's progress with passion and in enthralling detail.

Author : John Waller
Publisher : Icon Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Oliver Twist written by John Waller and published by Icon Books Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before.

Author : John Brown
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781091949423
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Memoir of Robert Blincoe written by John Brown and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Blincoe (c. 1792-1860) became famous during the 1830s for his popular "autobiography" detailing the horrific account of his childhood spent as a labourer in English cotton mills. This work, however, is not technically an autobiography as his story was told to journalist John Brown, who wrote the manuscript but died before publishing it. The manuscript was given to a friend who published the resulting book, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, in five episodes in the magazine The Lion in 1832. Historian John Waller has asserted that Charles Dickens based his character Oliver Twist on Blincoe, but no firm documentary or anecdotal evidence exists that this is true. Still, the publication of Blincoe's "memoir" had an impact on bringing the horrors of child labour to a wider audience, which in turn led to legislation to limit working hours and improve working conditions for child labourers.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1607541521
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 19th century London, the trusting orphan Oliver escapes factory work, only to fall in with a gang of nefarious thieves.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837-39.[1] The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets ""The Artful Dodger"", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin.Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.[2] The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.[3]In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own youthful experiences contributed as well.Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous adaptations for various media, including a highly successful musical play, Oliver!, and the multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture. Disney also put its spin on the novel with the animated film called Oliver & Company in 1988"

Author : Jack Sheffield
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409082369
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teacher, Teacher! written by Jack Sheffield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1977 and Jack Sheffield is appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. So begins Jack's eventful journey through the school year and his attempts to overcome the many problems that face him as a young and inexperienced headmaster. The many colourful chapters include Ruby the 20 stone caretaker with an acute spelling problem, a secretary who worships Margaret Thatcher, a villager who grows giant carrots, a barmaid/parent who requests sex lessons, and a five-year-old boy whose language is colourful in the extreme. And then there's also beautiful, bright Beth Henderson, who is irresistibly attractive to the young headmaster... Warm, funny and nostalgic, Teacher, Teacher is a delightful read that is guaranteed to make you feel better, whatever kind of day you've had.

Author : Frances Milton Trollope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy written by Frances Milton Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dickens' London written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Times & Oliver Twist (Annotated) written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two classics in one! Wonderfully spread out in one, annotated and illustrated, compact volume. Many vintage books are increasingly scarce and expensive. We published this volume in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a biography of the author.Includes: Hard Times (1854)Oliver Twist (1867

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Knickerbocker Press
ISBN 13 : 1631060724
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and published by Knickerbocker Press. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the classic rising-from-adversity tale of the little boy who only wants more. A favorite among young readers and adults alike, Charles Dickens' second novel, Oliver Twist, was first published in 1838 and has been made into a number of stage, television, and film adaptations, including the 1968 Academy Award-winning film. Oliver Twist tells the tale of the orphan Oliver, who is sent from the miserable conditions of a workhouse to work for an undertaker. He escapes, only to get caught up with the Artful Dodgers, a street gang of young pickpockets, led by the evil Fagin. Despite Oliver's bad start in life, he is able to rise above his circumstances. Dickens' book was one of the first to realistically portray the seedy street life in Victorian London, bringing attention to the plight of child labor and street urchins. Dickens believed that novels shouldn't just entertain, but should help people understand each other and see the goodness inherent in every person. He thought that fair play and honesty, if not thwarted by some external force, is the natural order of life. However, this can be irretrievably lost if it is subjected to ungoverned corrupting influences. It's a little melodrama, a little adventure, and a lot of fun to read. Complete and unabridged, this elegantly designed, clothbound edition features an elastic closure and a new introduction by Monica Feinberg Cohen.